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Chapter 7 - Order 7: The runaway 2

The skill/magic/artifact insight will be changed a little I'll be adding spellbooks,strengths and weaknesses

As the days pass the phoenix is getting more open to Achlys as he shows its face more as for Achlys he is trying his best to take care of it knowing it's still hurt but caring with love ,"Cryo calm down... I am not gonna hurt you" as the phoenix recognizes as it's name and looks at him and slowly walks to him making sure to watch out for his surroundings

As he approaches Achlys while looking at him ,"come closer Cryo..." He pets the couch hinting that Cryo can sit on the couch as Cryo jumps on it still maintaining his distance from Achlys but feeling safe in the presence of Achlys

Achlys reaches out a hand to try to pet him. Cryo sees the hand coming towards him questioning what Achlys want to do showing a fearful yet trusting posture towards Achlys. Achlys hands touches the head of Cryo feeling a connection is finally made the demeanor of Cryo changes drastically from fear to assurance

Achlys shows a smile of happiness and credence ,"I hope I can take care of you... Forever..." His voice being soft but resurring to Cryo as he enjoys the pets more and more showing the trust he has been building up

After a while he jumps off the cough and goes to a corner freezing it a little to make a place to sleep ,"sleep tight Cryo..." As Achlys said that with a calm tone stood up and grabbing his stuff and leaves the house to go back training heading deeper into the mountains once again

As he walks into a snowy part of the mountains breathing heavy with a face of determination after a while it starts to snow making the vision of Achlys really limited ,"I will keep persisting..." He thinks as he is freezing but pushing through

He falls on his face a few times but always comes standing back up and persist further ,"I need to become stronger...!" he think in the distance he sees a dark place looking like a cave

,"a cave..? Maybe... I can..." he walks into the cave even for a second he walks into a big room he collapses

A few hours later (it's still snowing heavily and wind is going wild) Achlys wakes up he notices it's warm and looks around seeing a campfire and someone sitting next to it... a female with dark brown hair almost no armour pretty tall strong build body with dark yellow eyes while having an red/orange Aura around her for her weapon it's a whip

She looks at him and gives a bright smile ,"you're awake... How do you feel...?" She asks with a soft but worried tone also showing a face of concern Achlys is sceptical to answere but he does it anyway ,"I'm feeling... Fine... May I ask who you are..." The woman smiles fade slowly but still shows a welcoming face as she sighs,"I'm Persephone... Nice to meet... You..." Achlys is thinking on how The way she said it... It sounded sad yet somehow proud...

___________________________________ character details: Persephone

Perse phone is 27 years old, she has alot of knowledge of this world, she knows the history of this world really well, she has fire/magma magic in her Arsenal is also the only one she has and she knows how to motivate people. her strength is not really known. her weakness is being injustice to this world being injustice makes her angry and reckless so makes her also vulnerable...

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,"why are you here... How did you find me" he asks with a tone of Curiosity and nervousness but his face keeps having a serious face ,"I found you... In this cave... I was lost in the storm... But I found this cave and found you laying on the ground fairly deep in the cave..."

Her voice serious yet calming showing no hostility towards Achlys

Yet he feels something is off but can't put his finger on it ,"why were you in the storm? Or in the mountains to begin with..." She asked as the face of Achlys turned to sadness ,"I-" he is hesitating a stranger who he never met... he thinks and thinks,"should I tell... Her?" His face still being sad but clearly showing a face of thinking he ultimate decides to tell her... he sighs ,"I... Ran away.... From home... Not because I was hurt but because... I was scared... My friend that got hurt... Because I wasn't giving my all... I was and still am scared to lock eyes with her... I can't forgive myself..." He tells her as Persephone nods and understands his reasoning showing a little tear but burns it away,"it's oke to run away from problems for a little time... Doesn't mean you should do it always... Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem..." she smiles showing a glimpse of hope and happiness

Achlys shows a smile it's fake Persephone sees through it but feels like she doesn't want to help it more ,"I gave you advice... What you want to do with it is up to you..." She gives one more last smile before she stands up and exists the cafe into the snow storm

Achlys watches her leave ,"thank you Persephone... For your advice..." Showing a little smile as he thinks as he looks around he sees shining stones from red to green even some yellow ,"elemental stones..? Aren't they pretty hard to get... " He stands up and goes to touch the yellow elemental stone as he touches it he Is sent into a flashback of the fight against Tiabishi ,"what... What happaned..." As he looks at the stone he touched he realises it's a time stone

He looks around for his bag as he sees it's laying next to the campfire and walks to it grabbing his iron sword out of it as he is going back to the time stone he slams the sword next to it trying to get it out,"C'mon I need to use it... Please be in one piece..." The stone wiggles left right more and more as Achlys continues to try and get it out

At one moment he falls out and Achlys uses a box where his food used to be in to capture it ,"yes!" He smiles happily while looking at the stone as the stone is shining and changing numbers in the stone ,"cool stone!" He wants to hold it but takes his hand back ,"I shouldn't..." As he frowns he thinks ,"I I have to go home"

As he looks around and sees more shining stones in different colours,"I'll keep this place in mind..." He looks outside the cave and sees it's still snowing but much less the storm has calmed down he puts the stones in his bag and goes out the cave finding his way back ,"where... Is my home... again..." He looks around and decides to go right of the cave not knowing if it's the right way

As he is traveling he sees a trail ,"the familiar trail.." as he thinks that he shows a relieved face and runs using dash... As he runs for a while he sees his house and sees something as his eyes widen in shocked he dashes beyond the speed he was going to fast it took him a few seconds to arrive at his house

As he arrives at his house there are gaint ice spikes surrounding it looking like a battle has taken place ,"what... Happaned here..?" His face shows that he is horrified ,"Cryo... I hope you are still... Oke" he thinks as he storms inside the house and it's weirdly warm inside Achlys is sweating nonstop

He looks down and sees ice on the ground and is very confused but worried as he goes further in searching for Cryo ,"Cryo where are you?!" He shouts as he hears Cryo screek in happiness in the living room Achlys rushes to the living room and sees Cryo jumping around in happiness and jumps on Achlys screeching in happiness as some frozen tears fall off his face ,"I am back Cryo I am back!" As Achlys pets his head and smiles a little

As Achlys is petting he remembered the spikes outside ,"hey Cryo what were those spikes outside? What happened?" He asks worried yet curious Cryo gets off him and walks towards the back door and shows a bunch of goblins ,"Cryo you did that?" Cryo doesn't understand it but jumps around as Achlys face changes to relieve and shows a little smile while he pets Cryo

As he pets Cryo he hears a knock on the door as he is shocked and feels his hand vibrating because Cryo is growling showing a posture of self awareness yet with a hint of fear as. Achlys knows it's not a good person yet but he trusts Cryo but still walks towards to the door ,"who are you!" His voice echoes through the house as the person by the door starts to speak,"someone you know... Achlys..."

Tiabishi wakes up slowly as she looks around she feels something on her chest she looks and notices it's a note ,"a note... From who..?" She looks at the note and starts to read it ,"Tiabishi... When you got out of control you got 2 new skills we are pretty happy about that but that's not I want to tell you ... Achlys has run away... He told mariola yes but he blames everything on his back. We don't know where he is yet, we will find him I promise. I'll use every knight in this city to find it even send adventures around so we will keep you up to date." Note ends as Tiabishi starts to tear up ,"THAT FUCKING IDIOT" she shouts with a shaking voice and tears falling from her face

As a healer walks in and looks at her ,"you're awake I'll notify the captain!" Tiabishi looks at him and nods before she tries to stand up but stumbles ,"my body... Is still... Hurt..?" She sits on the ground looking down as tears are still falling of her face

Saria barges in and inmideatly hugs tiabishi catching her off guard and starts to shy out ,"huh? Hah? I- haa!" Her face is scared but she hugs back showing still comfort as she cries more on Saria shoulder ,"it's oke don't worry Tiabishi... Let it out"she said as she moves her hand around Tiabishi back to calm her down slowly ,"why... Why did he do that! That idiot" her voice cracking up with sadness and Anger as she hugs Saria tigher

Mariola walks in and sees Saria calming down Tiabishi ,"Tiabishi hey... Do you feel better..?" As mariola started to speak Tiabishi face lights up and she jumps towards mariola as Tiabishi is crying and holding onto her mariola started to show a few tears also

Someone walks into the city gates and looks around ,"this city looks... Alive" she walks around the city seeing rich and poor places ,"it's good devided for poor and rich people... But all cities are corrupt..." She said with a voice of anger as she walks into an ally and notices a market, A slave market Her anger boils as she turns around ,"I swear I will burn this place to the ground and free them..." She thinks as she walks away cracking the ground every step she takes as her anger boils up more and more

Achlys looks at the door ,"open it... Achlys... I am not gonna hurt you..." Achlys hesitates he feels dread in those words but he can't place it in his mind he ultimate decides to open to door and he sees a boy with white hair standing there ,"you... What are you doing here boy from the guild" Diople smiles and stares serious ,"I can't believe that you forgot my name" shows fake tears as Achlys slaps his head ,"what was that for... Achlys!" He shouts with a funny tone,"you being an idiot" Achlys replies with a dead serious look

As Achlys let's Diople in ,"how did you find me here?" He asks with Curiosity as Diople looks at him and remembers ,"I saw some old man and asked him is he saw you and he told me that you were here." He explains as he smiles and Achlys sighs and talks under his breath ,"akatsuki... Why" Diople looks in confusion as he just schrugs it off

Cryo is still sitting in the corner holding his ground against Diople and Achlys tries to calm him down ,"calm down bud he unarmed and does no harm" as Cryo is persisting and growling more as Diople starts to talk,"I am not here for something much I am just here to make sure you are oke and to give you this"he gives a metal sword with the most attribute as Achlys eyes widen open and holds the sword ,"who bought it?? Saria? Nox?" Diople smiles and nods ,"Saria gave it to you" as he smiles and holds the sword in 2 hands the sword gets a mark a 3 air waves mark on the blade but they both don't notice it

As both of them sit down and look at Cryo and laugh a little